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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress, since you so much desire
Last Line: I climb to crown my chaste desire.
Subject(s): Cupid; Ambition; Love


A CELEBRATION OF CHARIS: 5. HIS DISCOURSE WITH CUPID, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Noblest charis, you that are
Last Line: And minerva, when she talkes.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


A CHOICE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: An angel stooped down from the hill-side
Last Line: For the heart of a friend lay there.
Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


A CIGARETTE VAGARY, by MARY CAMILLA FOSTER HALL-WOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the smoke of my dear cigarito
Last Line: A bitterness tinges it all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Von K., Camilla K.
Subject(s): Cupid; Smoking; Eros; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


A DISCOVERY IN BIOLOGY, by MARY E. LEVERETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think I know what cupid is
Last Line: Twill heal you to perfection.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


A VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time was, sweet dame (when broidered coats were smart
Last Line: That you will be, indeed, my valentine?
Subject(s): Cupid; Holidays; Love - Complaints; Valentine's Day; Eros


A WEEPING CUPID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why, love! I thought you were gay and fair
Last Line: Come, love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness


AGAINST MODESTY IN LOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For many unsuccessful years
Last Line: Had foolishly denied.
Subject(s): Cupid; Fear; Kisses; Love; Modesty; Tears; Eros


AH CUPID, I MISTOOK THEE, by FRANCIS DAVISON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Cupid


AIDS EDUCATION, SEVENTH GRADE, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The children are blooming like black flowers,
Last Line: Shocking in its grace, %fishing for its life.
Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness


ALCHEMISTS OF THE PALATE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I like to draw close %to the earth's beginning
Last Line: Probe the earth as if it were %the mouth of love
Subject(s): Alchemy And Alchemists; Cupid; Hearts; Love


ALCIDA: MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest thee, desire, gaze not at such a star
Last Line: That now I grieve I welcom'd such a guest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For mighty wars I thought to tune my lute
Last Line: While in unequal verse I sing my woes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; War; Eros


AN ENGLISH PADLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss danae, when fair and young
Last Line: And clap your padlock -- on her mind.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Youth; Eros


ANACREONTIQUE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As it happen'd on a night
Last Line: Your heart was half as safe as they
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


ANOTHER COMPLAINT AGAINST CUPID, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherever maidens may be found
Last Line: I saw -- I felt the flashing dart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


AS CUPID ROGUISHLY ONE DAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "no, no, no, no, no he'll ne'er be free again"
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


BOW OF BEAUTY, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bow of beauty, arching o'er us, tinted with unearthly dyes
Last Line: Love's and mercy's light assuming, like the rainbow it doth shine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Cupid; Heaven; Jews; Love; Eros; Paradise; Judaism


BROTHER GODS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: If woman's a delightful creature
Last Line: The devil take the other.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Bacchus; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Eros


CAELICA (COMPLETE, 1-109), by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Subject(s): Country Life; Cupid


CAELICA: 12, by FULKE GREVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid, thou naughtie boy, when thou wert loathed
Last Line: Where living to the world, to me he dieth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord
Variant Title(s): To Cupid
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CALLOUS CUPID, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid does not care for sighs
Last Line: Does not care for lover's weeping!
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


CANTATA, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a verdant laurel's ample shade
Last Line: Cupid does with phoebus reign.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros


CHILDREN OF LOVE, by HAROLD MONRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The holy boy
Subject(s): Cupid


CICERONIS AMOR: ROUNDELAY, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fond, feigning poets make of love a god
Last Line: And prove him but a boy not past the rod.
Variant Title(s): Love (cupid As A Child)
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros


CLEOMENS, OR THE SPARTAN HERO: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, no change endeavour
Last Line: Love has found out a way to live by dying.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eyes; Love; Singing & Singers; Eros; Songs


CLOE HUNTING, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind her neck her comely tresses tied
Last Line: At human hearts we fling, nor ever miss the game.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Hunting; Laughter; Eros; Hunters


CORINTHIANS REPLY, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You speak in jive of fools and the devil
Last Line: Sex is the greatest
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love


CUPID, by WILLIAM BLAKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was cupid a boy
Last Line: And away fled every joy.
Variant Title(s): Why Was Cupid A Boy
Subject(s): Bible; Cupid; Mythology; Eros


CUPID, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauties, have ye seen this toy
Last Line: And that he's venus' runaway.
Variant Title(s): Venus' Runaway
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID A PLOWMAN, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His lamp his bow and quiver laid aside
Last Line: What once europa was, nannette is now.
Variant Title(s): Cupid Turned Ploughman
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros


CUPID ACQUITTED, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever jove renews mankind
Last Line: And pray—what answer shall they make?
Subject(s): Cupid; Jupiter (god); Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


CUPID AND GANYMEDE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In heaven, one holiday, you read
Last Line: And rise a swan, or fall a shower.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Love; Mythology; Troy; Eros; Paradise


CUPID AND VENUS, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From bar to bar, from curb to curb I run
Last Line: As the kid, her blind pimp, eggs me on.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Women; Women's Rights; Eros; Feminism


CUPID AS A LANDSCAPE PAINTER, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I sate upon a mountain
Last Line: No, I trow -- not I!
Subject(s): Cupid; Paintings & Painters; Eros


CUPID DROWNED, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: T' other day as I was twining
Last Line: (paraphrase from the greek by leigh hunt.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Variant Title(s): Cupid Swallowed
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


CUPID FAR GONE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What so beyond all madness is the elf
Last Line: Must leash'd t' himself with him a-hunting go.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I went down the autumn lane
Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again.
Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness


CUPID IN AMBUSH, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It oft to many has successful been
Last Line: And in the wounds he sees he bears his part.
Subject(s): Blood; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros


CUPID IN THE TEMPLE, by ROBERT FORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I canna, winna cloak the fact
Last Line: But cease your sabbath descration!
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


CUPID MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As after noon, one summer's day
Last Line: I took you for your likeness, chloe.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID TEARING A ROSE-BUD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, cupid! Cupid! Let alone
Last Line: Beneath a lover's sigh.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID TURN'D PLOUGHMAN; AN IDYLLIUM, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once for his pleasure love would go
Last Line: Your haughty neck, and draw my plough.'
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear
Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.'
Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime


CUPID UNGODDED, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why how now, cupid, grown so wild?
Last Line: To see thy shame, and break thy heart.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID'S ARROWS, by GEORGE PEELE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At venus' entreaty for cupid her son
Last Line: His metal vulcan's cyclops sent from hell.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hate; Hope; Jealousy; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Eros; Optimism


CUPID'S BLUNDER, by GERTRUDE JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poor cupid froze his wings one day
Last Line: O cupid, and o maiden!
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID'S DARTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do not worry if I scurry from the grill room in a hurry
Subject(s): Beauty;cupid;passion; Eros


CUPID'S HOLIDAY, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let her that is of love afraid
Last Line: But be glad of it forever!
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID'S POWER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Am I in fairy land? Oe tell me, pray
Last Line: For guidance through this labyrinthine maze.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPID'S PROMISE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft cupid, wanton, amorous boy
Last Line: And, by thy grant, his power show?
Subject(s): Cupid; Kisses; Oaths; Singing & Singers; Voices; Eros


CUPIDO, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The solid, solid universe
Last Line: The evil and the good.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


CUPIDO; REVIVAL OF AN ANTIQUATED FIGURE ... MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Roseate darling
Last Line: Systems and rights lie forgotten behind us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Babies; Cupid; Divorce; Love; Marriage; Mythology - Classical; Infants; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DAN, by MABEL HAUGHTON COLLYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: This toast is to a liar who
Last Line: Had cupid told the truth!
Subject(s): Cupid; Duplicity; Eros; Deceit


DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Who but oft hath marveled why
Last Line: The old to fall in love!
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


DEFINING LOVE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's ice that burns, it is frozen fire
Last Line: Who's in all things against himself!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Passion


DOCTOR GALL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing of the organs and fibres
Last Line: Of craniological gall.
Subject(s): Cupid; London; Physicians; Singing & Singers; Truth; Eros; Doctors


EARTH TO SPRING, by R. W. COWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O maid with eyes of sweetest tender blue
Last Line: By dainty touch of fairy finger tips.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Eros


EPIGRAM. ON EROS PLOUGHING, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His torch and quiver down sly eros flung
Last Line: "the harvest, or I'll yoke europa's bull."
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plowing & Plowmen; Eros


EROS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Last Line: Hath cared to look upon thy face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


EROS, by AMY S. JENNINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see in your eyes what you have seen
Last Line: And the ripples kissing her throat.
Subject(s): Cupid; Ducks; Eros; Mallards; Drakes


EROS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet
Last Line: This the first first-love, the first love of all!
Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Beginnings; Eros


EROS, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, I know not what thou art
Last Line: Leads upward to celestial things!
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


EROS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm of love has burst at last
Last Line: And billow and wallow and undulate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Storms; Eros


EROS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eros, from rest in isles far-famed
Last Line: Eros.
Subject(s): Cupid; Roundels; Eros


EROS, by R. WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did he awaken in the middle
Last Line: A look all slope and evening %and handsome fear?
Subject(s): Cupid


FALLING IN LOVE AFTER FORTY, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes to the dark, uneven body of each tree
Last Line: Lowering its head to lap at our champagne
Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness


FELL IN LOVE, GOT MARIED, by DANIEL BACHHUBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You step out of the car - your first blind date, ever. You've grilled your
Last Line: Two lives to work together
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Wedding Song


FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 22, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty, since you so much desire
Last Line: There, there, o there lies cupid's fire.
Subject(s): Ambition; Cupid; Love; Eros


FRONT DOOR MAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You! First thing at the door
Last Line: How, cupid, can I cope
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Cupid; Men; Relationships


GALATHEA, SELS., by JOHN LYLY                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John
Subject(s): Cupid


GRANDMOTHER'S VALENTINE, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The branches creaked on the garret roof
Last Line: Grandmother's valentine told me so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cupid; Grandparents; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day; Eros; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


HER VALENTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somebody's sent a funny little
Last Line: Can not breathe the lightest whisper of his burning love for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Holidays; Love; Roses; Valentine's Day; Eros


IDEA: 36. CUPID CONJURED, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack
Last Line: To make her love, or, cupid, be thou damn'd.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


IDYLL 2. EROS AND THE FOWLER, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunting the birds within a bosky grove
Last Line: "come suddenly and sit upon your head."
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


IF LOVE HIS ARROWS SHOOT SO FAST, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "be a good boy, be more mild"
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


JAMES THE FOURTH: CUPID, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a shepherd sing
Last Line: If I would like the lad that so infects.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


KING ARTHUR: SONG OF VENUS, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest isle, all isles excelling
Last Line: Those shall be renown'd for love.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Venus [in Honour Of Britannia]
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Mythology - Classical; Singing & Singers; Venus (goddess); Eros; Songs


LOVE DISARMED, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath a myrtle's verdant shade
Last Line: Gives grief, or pleasure; spares, or kills.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Nymphs; Eros


LOVE FOUND TWO DOORS AJAR, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Love surely was not sleeping
Last Line: And singing, love, of thee.
Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


LOVE POEM OF THE ROMAN DAYS: 7. ISABELLA'S TREE, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the courtyard, isabella's apricot
Last Line: Dauphin into king.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; Hearts; Isabella, Infanta Of Parma; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros


LOVE THE ARCHER, by RUFINUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid, when you shoot your darts
Last Line: Else they divinity.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


LOVE'S FAIRYLAND; TO FLORENCE ON HER WEDDING DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is beauty on the mountains
Last Line: There dawns another day.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Passion; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


LOVE'S LOVERS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the altars of queen venus we
Last Line: "for love and thee!"
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Mythology - Classical; Passion; Venus (goddess); Eros


LOVE'S SLEEP, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We'll cover love with roses
Last Line: "but sing, ""love, tra-la-lee!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Sleep; Eros


LOVE'S WILDWOOD TRAIL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a trail that leads
Last Line: With his shafts and bow for thee.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros


LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Vague as the shadows, 'neath april-leafed trees
Last Line: Is love's young dream!
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


MANMADIN, THE INDIAN CUPID, FLOATING DOWN THE GANGES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is darkness on the sky
Last Line: Well may bend to thee, o love!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Cupid; India; Eros


MANY ARE CALLED, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many are called, dear heart, to happiness
Last Line: Many are called by love, but few are chosen.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Eros


MARRIAGE UNEQUAL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, that even in a heavenly marriage
Last Line: Whilst cupid evermore remains the child.
Subject(s): Cupid; Marriage; Eros; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MERCURY AND CUPID, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In sullen humour one day jove
Last Line: For heaven's sake, keep your darts! Good night.
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Mercury (mythology); Mythology; Eros; Paradise


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology); Eros


MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH: 6. ONESELF AT HELL'S MOUTH, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It wasn't only my sisters
Last Line: Come soon, with all your arrows
Subject(s): Cupid; Psyche (mythology)


MIDNIGHT SUPPER, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because nothing else can be done,
Last Line: Waiting clammily in its little foam tray, and began %to pull it apart.
Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness


NEW MARRIAGE, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It doesn't ask that either party love or honor (let alone obey)
Last Line: The ceremony ends with each partner mumbling, % I guess.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage


O MORES!, by ALBERT ELLSWORTH THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cupid's bow is lying broken
Last Line: Arrows must be diamond-tipped.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


OF A CHILD THAT HAD FEVER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I bid you, mock not eros
Last Line: The burnt child craves the flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peach trees and judas trees
Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians


ON TYING DAPHNE'S SHOE, by J. STUART BRYAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tying her shoe, I knelt at daphne's feet
Last Line: Cupid had bound me captive in her bows.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


ONCE, ON A CLOUDLESS SUMMER-DAY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of such a poisoned arrow
Subject(s): Cupid


OUT OF THE GREEKE CUPID'S CRYER, by MOSCHUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love is lost, nor can his mother
Last Line: That though it shines, 'tis fire and will consume.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


OUT OF THE ITALIAN, by VALERIO MARCELLINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Would any one the true cause find
Last Line: And so he lost his clothes, eyes, heart and all.
Variant Title(s): Cupid Blind And Naked
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


PERCUSSION, SALT AND HONEY, by SAPPHO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who stalks on all fours %like a beast
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cupid; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical


PROMISES OF A VALENTINE'S DAY, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love: %I wanted to thank you for the gifts you sent me for
Last Line: And I will make you happy. %you will be like a king for me. %and shall be your queen. %I promise you
Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Music And Musicians; Valentine's Day


PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've
Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros


QUATRAIN: 4, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young cupid flies in foul and fair
Last Line: Sweet boy, he has no clothes to soil.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


ROMANCE, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Born & lost in a throw of time
Last Line: Not behaving like any government.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Romance; Eros


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AUTO-DA-FE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See these violets, dusty tresses
Last Line: So farewell! Good night! Good night!
Subject(s): Cupid; Farewell; Love; Eros; Parting


SONG: 2, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever thou didst joy to bind
Last Line: But never, never grant a cure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Cupid; Venus (goddess); Eros


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 15, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I was unconfined and free
Last Line: When both must quit the field.
Subject(s): Cupid; Freedom; Hearts; Soul; Eros; Liberty


SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 28, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst others proclaim
Last Line: And there is no living without her.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Love; Nymphs; Roses; Eros


SONGS: 10. WHEN CUPID FELL FROM GOLDEN HELL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of roses, roses red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Cupid; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Eros


SONNET: O HUSBAND!, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O husband! This word of care born
Last Line: I'm a woman, am empty, yet full of light for thee.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Eros; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SORROWS OF EROS, by HENRY WEINFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eros would gather up the golden sheaves
Last Line: In any case, at last one was alone
Subject(s): Cupid


SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA, by JANE BOWDLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With bow unstrung, and arrows broke
Last Line: And sense and reason shall adore.'
Subject(s): Courtship; Cupid; Hearts; Love; Passion; Eros


SUCH A DUCK, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "once venus, deeming love too fat"
Last Line: "but then -- you're such a duck, my darling!"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;ducks;juno (goddess);minerva;mythology - Classical;peacocks;venus (goddess); Eros;mallards;drakes


THE ART OF LOVE: 1, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cupid's school whoe'er wou'd take degree
Last Line: But here 'tis time to rest my self and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Eros


THE CALL OF SCIENCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: He speaks: / 'my girl,' quoth he, 'I feel each cell
Last Line: Currents reversed for their divorce.
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Passion; Eros


THE CAPTIVE, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've sought for cupid by day and night
Last Line: In the depths of your hazel eyes, dear.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR THE UNGENTLE GUEST, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One silent night of late
Last Line: Ile leave thy heart a dying.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


THE CONVERT, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrote lots of trash about cupid
Last Line: And learn what it feels like yourself!
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


THE DART, by ELIZA [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shoot from above
Last Line: Shot with a dart of heavens bright eye
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1
Subject(s): Cupid;death;love; "eros;dead, The;


THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find
Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather.
Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil


THE LASS WITH THE DELICATE AIR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "young molly, who lives at the foot of the hill"
Last Line: How to win the dear lass with the delicate air
Subject(s): Cupid;love; Eros


THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn
Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____
Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE LITTLE ARCHER, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Deftly the little archer plies
Last Line: In sigh or tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Archers And Archery; Cupid; Love; Eros


THE ORPHARION: CUPID'S INGRATITUDE, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cupid abroad was 'lated in the night
Last Line: That sore I griev'd I welcom'd such a guest.
Variant Title(s): A Night Visitor;love's Treachery
Subject(s): Cupid; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Eros


THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains
Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings.
Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3
Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations


THE PROPHECY OF FAMINE; A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis            
First Line: When cupid first instructs his darts to fly
Last Line: "who most enjoys and best deserves, their love."
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Courts & Courtiers; Cupid; England; Fate; Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758); Scotland; Wilkes, John (1725-1797); Youth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Eros; English; Destiny


THE SCHOLAR OF HIS OWN PUPIL; THIRD IDYLLIUM, by BION    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt, by me I saw fair venus stand
Last Line: And learn'd of him, by songs, the art of love.
Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Love; Cupid; Educators; Professors; Eros


THE THEFT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When celia, coming from the stream
Last Line: And gave it back to love.
Subject(s): Cupid; Desire; Virginity; Eros; Vestals


THE TRIPLE LEAGUE TO MRS. SUSAN DOVE, by ELIZABETH THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pensive eliza lately sat
Last Line: That charming iris still is mine.
Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Friendship; Soul; Eros; Destiny


THE WAKEFUL NIGHTINGALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "for love that makes him wakeful, makes him sing"
Subject(s): Birds;cupid;love - Complaints;nightingales; Eros


THE WINGS OF EROS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray
Last Line: But hush! . . . Remind not eros of his wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


THREE'S A CROWD', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crisp and hard lay the snow beneath
Last Line: When the person who crowds you is cupid
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


TIME AND LOVE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An artist painted time and love
Last Line: "and, after marriage, cupid."
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Cupid; Love; Time; Eros


TO A LADY, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thanks for thy little god of love
Last Line: And a memorial of thy donor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Cupid; Fate; Love; Eros; Destiny


TO A STATUE OF CUPID BEARING A BOW AND QUIVER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Armed boy! Thine arrow try
Last Line: Art thou deaf as well as blind?
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


TO CELIA ON HER WEDDING DAY, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst heav'n with kind propitious ray
Last Line: Wrapt in a glorious blaze of light
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love; Marriage; Tragedy


TO CUPID, by MICHAEL DRAYTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maidens, why spare ye?
Last Line: More good they had taught him.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


TO EROS, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou accustomed to olympian air
Last Line: We leave all else and follow where thou movest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


TO MY DAUGHTER ON VALENTINE'S DAY, FIFTH GRADE, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You were straight and solid and golden
Last Line: From her gold-dusted depths, piquant, bruisable
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Holidays; Love; Valentine's Day


TO-NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What can I find in the city shops
Last Line: To piddle in his mother's lap?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Cupid; Mothers; Eros


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. APRIL, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O april, month of nymphs and fauns and cupids
Last Line: Towards the loved one.
Subject(s): April; Cupid; Love; Eros


TRIOLET, by BERNICE SWANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cupid is a careless lad
Last Line: With his bow and quiver.
Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Complaints; Eros


UNDER A WINGED CUPID, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis vain to haste when love pursues
Last Line: "for he has wings, - thou, only feet"
Subject(s): Angels;arrows;cupid;love;passion; Eros


UPON CUPID (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old wives have often told, how they
Last Line: Asswag'd, and he was well again.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


UPON CUPID (3), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Love, like a beggar, came to me
Last Line: His finger was the dart.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


UPON CUPID (4), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As lately I a garland bound
Last Line: Co'd never since find any rest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


VENUS MISTAKEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cloe's picture was to venus shown
Last Line: Friend howard's genius fancied all the rest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Venus (goddess); Eros


VIEW #8, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's late and you don't know
Last Line: And whispers; yes. Now
Subject(s): Cupid; Hearts; Love


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 9, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enuie ye muses, at your thriuing mate
Last Line: Be gossips to those ribald rymes of thine.
Subject(s): Cupid; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Eros


VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For shame write better labeo, or write none
Last Line: For shame write cleanly labeo, or write none.
Subject(s): Cupid; Troy; Writing & Writers; Eros


WHERE CUPID DWELLS, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Way over the seas, in a far, far land
Last Line: When he rests over there from his play. Don't you?
Subject(s): Cupid; Play; Eros


WHICH?, by W. C. NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Blonde or brunette? Shall ethel fair
Last Line: "which!'"
Subject(s): Cupid; Eros


WHO'LL BUY A CUPID?, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the wares so pretty
Last Line: Such beauties! Come and buy!
Subject(s): Cupid; Love; Eros


WHY I FORGIVE MY YOUNGER SELF HER TRANSGRESSIONS, by RUTH L. SCHWARTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe it's the time I spend in high school classrooms
Last Line: Saying here, now: this time, this place.
Subject(s): Bodies; Cupid; Death; Sickness


WHY?, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: What makes you ask dan cupid 'why?'
Last Line: For love never knows the reason why.
Subject(s): Angels; Cupid; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Eros


WILY CUPID, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O mother mine, 'tis cupid %the boy of wiles and laughter
Last Line: With his deadly bow and arrows %to shoot at me no more
Subject(s): Cupid; Love